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Wink Wanted to Kill the Password. Then It Found the Payment Rails.
Wink began with a clever premise: any ordinary camera could become a checkout credential. Its 2025 merger with Phoenix Managed Networks turned that identity layer into a payments business with real rails, real distribution and a much harder question about trust.
Pindrop Bet the Voice Was a Fingerprint. Then AI Learned to Wear It
The Atlanta security company spent a decade proving that every call leaves clues. Deepfakes turned that niche insight into a much bigger business - and a warning for any company that still treats a familiar voice as proof.
Omilia
For 24 years Omilia has been trying to kill the phone menu. Now, with $67 million in fresh funding and a billion conversations a year running through its systems, the Cyprus-born company is betting that the future of customer service sounds less like a robot and more like a person who already knows why you called.
Prosa.ai
Prosa.ai is an Indonesian deep-tech company that builds natural language processing and speech technology for Bahasa Indonesia. Founded in 2018 by ITB academics and an industry veteran, it develops NLP APIs, speech-to-text and text-to-speech engines, voice biometrics, chatbots and analytics that let banks, insurers, government agencies and enterprises understand and act on Indonesian-language text and voice data - a market largely underserved by global AI providers.
Illuma
Illuma (Illuma Labs) is a Plano, Texas fintech that secures phone conversations for credit unions and community banks. Its flagship product, IllumaSHIELD, uses AI-powered passive voice biometrics to verify callers in seconds - replacing security questions and PINs - while a dedicated deepfake-detection engine and layered multifactor checks defend contact centers against synthetic-voice and social-engineering fraud.
Milind Borkar
Milind Borkar is the founder and CEO of Illuma, a Plano, Texas company that uses passive voice biometrics and synthetic-voice detection to authenticate callers and stop phone-channel fraud at credit unions and community banks. He holds a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech, is named on 21 patents, and spent a decade at Texas Instruments launching more than 50 products before founding Illuma in 2016.
SpeakIn Technologies Co.,Ltd.
SpeakIn Technologies is a voiceprint-recognition and identity-security company founded in Silicon Valley in 2015 and headquartered in Shenzhen. Using deep neural networks and its iVector engine, SpeakIn turns the unique physical signature of a human voice into a biometric key, offering both 1:1 verification (is this the right speaker?) and 1:N identification (who is speaking, out of many?). Its SDK and cloud APIs are used across banking, public security, and smart devices, with reported accuracy near 98% and customers including Tencent, Lenovo, ASUS, and China Merchants Bank.
Sensory, Inc.
Sensory is a Santa Clara-based company that builds on-device AI for voice, sound, and biometrics. Since 1994 its embedded software has shipped in more than three billion consumer electronics, from toys and wearables to cars and smart speakers, giving devices the ability to listen, see, and verify without sending data to the cloud.
Todd Mozer
Todd Mozer is Chairman and CEO of Sensory, Inc., the Santa Clara-based company he co-founded in 1994 that has quietly powered voice recognition in over 3 billion consumer devices - from the 'OK Google' and 'Hey Siri' wake words to smart home gadgets, automotive systems, and medical devices. A second-generation tech entrepreneur (son of physicist Forrest Mozer, with whom he also co-founded ESS Technology), Todd holds 50+ patents and an MBA from Stanford. He has spent 30+ years making AI run tiny, private, and always-on - long before the rest of the industry caught up.